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Cool Kickstarter Project Alert!

I just want to take a moment to turn you guys on to a great Kickstarter project. My friend Kennon Hulett is raising money for a documentary called “In Defense of Fat”, about the obesity epidemic and the science of ancestral health. I designed a poster for her that’s one of the pledge incentives!

There’s more information and a video up on Kickstarter so please check it out! This is an interesting project, and I was pleased to be involved.

@Ben: The documentary is in defense of fat in food, not people who are themselves extremely fat. There’s actually a fair bit of evidence now that eating fat isn’t inherently bad for you, and that diets high in carbohydrates lead people to consume more calories and make us biochemically more disposed to put on body fat. In any case, that scientific movement is totally separate from the people who argue that being obese isn’t harmful.

@Ben: Look up the Inuit’s and how low their occurrences of cancer were eating a highly fatty diet, and how that changed with the introduction of “southern grains” to their diets. I didn’t see this project as saying, “It’s not my fault I’m fat” so much as, “Our bodies haven’t adapted to the change in diet, so we need to be aware of it.”